The introduction for Showtime’s “House of Lies” (sometimes billed as “Hou$e of Lie$) almost reads like a confessional. Or for a 12-step program: “My name is Marty Kaan, and I’m a management consultant. Every week, my team and I go somewhere and talk people into thinking they really, really need us. Still don’t know exactly […]
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I’ll have to say that I wasn’t too impressed with the first “Ice Age” film. The animal characters were done well, but the humans started to branch into that hypothesis known as the “uncanny valley,” which holds that humans observing the behavior of a human replica start a response of revulsion as the simulation gets […]
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The patriarch of Showtime’s “Shameless” is an unrepentant boozehound whose crackpot, get-rich-quick schemes and numerous attempts to bilk people out of their money never pan out, even as he’s vigorously panhandling his way through the South side of Chicago. Indeed, even in the opening credits of “Shameless,” which is based on a long-running British series […]
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Guest review by Steve Warns For 10 seasons and 236 episodes, “Friends” was there for us to tune in, zone out and dream of cracking that inner circle. NBC’s powerhouse of the 1990s, “Friends” was the ultimate escapist sitcom. It was a rather unrealistic show of six impossibly beautiful people navigating life and love – […]
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Movie theater tickets are just too damned expensive these days. I’m talking about just regular admission; not parking, concession stand or 3D upgrades. Hell, even the discounted price of the matinee isn’t worth it anymore, as the difference has gone from half-price to about a dollar. And forget taking the family; a trip to the […]
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My wife and I had only been married a few months when one evening we decided to go to a movie. It’s difficult to find something that both of us will like, because her tastes tend toward romantic comedies. While I don’t object to the genre, it’s not something I seek out, because too often […]
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Despite claims by my spendthrift wife to the contrary, I do not have kangaroo arms — you know, the kind that are too short to reach my wallet. However, when it comes to paying $10 to go to a movie, I do find that my pockets are too long to comfortably retrieve my wad of […]
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Guest review by Jerry Garcia Starting out originally as five-minute Internet shorts, “Children’s Hospital” will start its’ fourth season on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim on Aug. 9. The third season of the 14-episode, live-action comedy series that lampoons TV medical shows has been released on DVD, just in time before the new season debut. The third season […]
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They’re not as bad as “The Bad News Bears” but definitely aren’t in the same league as “The Natural.” “The Yankles,” now available on DVD, is the story of a baseball team fielded by Yeshiva Torah V’Limud, an orthodox rabbinical college. Unlike in many sports movies, though, this isn’t a group of athletic misfits. All […]
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